POPrl is trying to bring a new twist to the Digg/Reddit user-submitted story space. Instead of relying on a voting system that can be easily gamed, POPrl measures a story’s popularity by looking at its virality - the more people that click a link, the more popular a story is (makes sense, right?) Users submit their favorite stories to the site and get the equivalent of a TinyURL. Users then take this tiny URL and distribute it around the web through Twitter, SMS, or other websites. The site measures the number of clicks that link gets, and uses an an algorithm to determine a story’s popularity. The most popular stories are featured on the site’s front page, though clicks from here won’t count towards their popularity score.http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/06/poprl-mixes-reddit-with-tinyurl-gets-strange-result/
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